MAA vs. AVB, EQR, ESS, SUI, UDR, ELS, CPT, AIV, UMH, and WELL
Should you be buying Mid-America Apartment Communities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mid-America Apartment Communities include AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Equity Residential (EQR), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Sun Communities (SUI), UDR (UDR), Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Camden Property Trust (CPT), Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), UMH Properties (UMH), and Welltower (WELL). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
AvalonBay Communities (NYSE:AVB) and Mid-America Apartment Communities (NYSE:MAA) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.
AvalonBay Communities has a net margin of 34.05% compared to AvalonBay Communities' net margin of 25.92%. AvalonBay Communities' return on equity of 8.90% beat Mid-America Apartment Communities' return on equity.
AvalonBay Communities currently has a consensus price target of $207.76, indicating a potential upside of 0.63%. Mid-America Apartment Communities has a consensus price target of $141.59, indicating a potential downside of 0.64%. Given Mid-America Apartment Communities' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AvalonBay Communities is more favorable than Mid-America Apartment Communities.
AvalonBay Communities pays an annual dividend of $6.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Mid-America Apartment Communities pays an annual dividend of $5.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. AvalonBay Communities pays out 101.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mid-America Apartment Communities pays out 123.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mid-America Apartment Communities has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Mid-America Apartment Communities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
AvalonBay Communities has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mid-America Apartment Communities has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AvalonBay Communities had 2 more articles in the media than Mid-America Apartment Communities. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for AvalonBay Communities and 9 mentions for Mid-America Apartment Communities. AvalonBay Communities' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Mid-America Apartment Communities' score of 0.45 indicating that Mid-America Apartment Communities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AvalonBay Communities has higher revenue and earnings than Mid-America Apartment Communities. Mid-America Apartment Communities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AvalonBay Communities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
92.6% of AvalonBay Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of AvalonBay Communities shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Mid-America Apartment Communities shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AvalonBay Communities received 164 more outperform votes than Mid-America Apartment Communities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.02% of users gave AvalonBay Communities an outperform vote while only 60.60% of users gave Mid-America Apartment Communities an outperform vote.
Summary
AvalonBay Communities beats Mid-America Apartment Communities on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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